Todays Srimad-Bhagavatam Class By Srila Prabhupada, August 17, 1972, Los Angeles "Make Four Social Classes"

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"Make Four Social Classes"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.14

August 17, 1972, Los Angeles

 

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Pradyumna: (leads chanting, etc.)

 

tasmad ekena manasa

bhagavan satvatam patih

srotavyah kirtitavyas ca

dhyeyah pujyas ca nityada

 

(devotees chant responsively)

 

Prabhupada: Where is Nandarani?

 

Devotee: She's in the kitchen, Prabhupada.

 

Prabhupada: All right. Go on. Any other ladies? (woman chants) That's all.

So read the word meaning.

 

Pradyumna: (reads synonyms) Translation: "Therefore devotees should

constantly hear about, glorify, remember and worship the Personality of Godhead,

Bhagavan, who is their protector."

 

Prabhupada: So tasmat. Tasmat, "therefore." It is continuation of the last

verse. What was the last verse?

 

atah pumbhir dvija-srestha

varnasrama-vibhagasah

svanusthitasya dharmasya

samsiddhir hari-tosanam

[sB 1.2.13]

 

Everyone should know how to become perfect. That education is not there.

They do not know what is perfection. They do not know that "I am eternal. My

struggle for existence is for perfection of life, to come to my original

position, Krsna consciousness, so that I may regain again my eternal, blissful

life of knowledge." That is the aim.

 

So it is required therefore that the social system should be organized in

such a way that automatically people become interested in the ultimate goal of

life. That is civilization. This is not civilization, simply animal

propensities: eat voraciously and sleep twenty hours and have sex life without

any restriction and have atom bomb for the defense. That's all, finished,

civilization. Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca samanyam etat. These things are

there in the animals. Just like goats. We have seen goats eating twenty-four

hours. Not only goats, they..., all other animals. Even if he is strong animal.

That, they are... I told you. Na hi suptasya simhasya pravisanti mukhe mrgah.

Suptasya, sleeping lion. Lion is very powerful; he is given the honor of

becoming the king of the animals. But still, he has to work for eating. It is

not that because he is lion he will be sleeping, and some animal will come and

enter into his mouth. No. That is not possible. He has to work.

 

Similarly, everyone has to work. Therefore there must be systematic work

so that whole society may develop Krsna consciousness, the ideal or the goal of

life. Without program working... Just like I was hearing that in Japan they are

very much, the people have very much liking for working, but, by law, they are

being prohibited, "Don't work." So this civilization has been created that they

do not know anything more. They are not taught that working is not our main

business. Our main business is, as it is stated, hari-tosanam. Samsiddhir

hari-tosanam [sB 1.2.13]. We have to satisfy Krsna, the Supreme Personality of

Godhead. Or God, whatever you say. But they do not know what is God.

 

So "There is no God. There is no life." These things are being taught

throughout the whole world. You... Canakya... What is...? That Carvaka theory.

Carvaka theory is that,

 

rnam krtva ghrtam pibet

yavaj jivet sukham jivet

 

and

 

bhasmi-bhutasya dehasya

kutah punar agamano bhavet

 

Bhasmi-bhutasya dehasya. In India, according to Vedic system, the body is

burned after death.

 

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